A certain farmer, who was an infidel, sent to the editor of a
weekly newspaper the following letter:
“Sir--I have been trying an experiment. I have a field of Indian
corn, which I plowed on Sunday. I planted it on Sunday. I did
all the cultivating which it received on Sunday. I gathered the
crop on Sunday, and on Sunday hauled it to my barn; and I find
that I have more corn per acre than has been gathered by any of
my neighbors during this October.”
What a triumphant sneer lay behind these words of the skeptic!
But one thinks the light faded from his eyes as he read the
sentence which the editor appended to his letter: “N. B.--God
does not always settle His accounts in October!”
(1699)
=Judgment Dependent on Position=--See _Point of View_.